Meet our Featured Food Blogger, Holly!
Type in the word “beans” on Holly Nilsson’s website, Spend With Pennies, and you will find pages of recipes using all varieties of beans! Holly is a mother of four almost-grown children, a wife, blogger, recipe creator, photographer and force behind the website. Browse through Spend With Pennies and you’ll quickly conclude cooking is her […]
Meet Lindsay, Our Featured Dietitian!
Lindsay Livingston is a full-time mom and a registered dietitian from Columbus, Ohio. She believes healthy eating doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive — and beans fit perfectly with her philosophy. Lindsay’s website, The Lean Green Bean, has delicious, easy recipes for your whole family to enjoy. She has found that beans aren’t just […]
Try Chickpea Flour — You’ll Like It!
I like experimenting with different ingredients when I cook, so naturally I wanted to try recipes using garbanzo, or chickpea, flour. It’s a nutritional, gluten-free powerhouse loaded with protein, fiber, vitamins, and minerals. You can make the flour yourself if you have a heavy-duty blender such as a Vitamix. Just add some dried garbanzos to […]
Meet our Featured Dietitian Lauren Harris-Pincus!
Lauren’s favorite nutrition advice? Think healthy, not skinny. She helps her clients get into that mindset with plenty of healthy eating tips, like adding beans to her meals for more protein and fiber. In fact, she loves using beans so much that she said she can’t pick a favorite: “It would be like choosing a […]
Meet our Featured Food Blogger, Isadora of She Likes Food!
I am usually on the lookout for food bloggers who use beans in their recipes (go figure), and Isadora never disappoints! Her photos inspire you to get in the kitchen and cook one of her delicious creations. Isadora’s love of cooking and Mexican food can be traced back to her dad, who owned a Mexican […]
Meet our Featured Dietitian Katie Cavuto!
Ask Katie Cavuto about beans, and she says: “What’s not to love?” This wellness advocate inspires people to live well through self-love, good food, mindfulness, and sustainable, conscious living — and that includes some really delicious recipes, too. Katie often incorporates beans into her meal prep and batch cooking. Whether she’s using the stove top, […]
Are They Lima Beans or Butterbeans?
Are they Lima beans or butterbeans? In the United States, we primarily refer to the bean as a Lima or a butterbean. But it’s always up for debate! One thing is for sure, these aren’t the frozen green lima beans that you grew up with, rather they are the dry white beans with an almost […]
Meet Meggan Hill of Culinary Hill!
Meggan Hill, a native of Wisconsin, is the creator of the blog Culinary Hill. Meggan believes food is love, and there is nothing more she loves to do than spread the love by cooking for her family and friends. She has an interesting modern take on traditional Midwestern food, the kind of comfort food that […]
Meet our Featured Dietitian Deborah Murphy!
Purchasing dried beans in bulk and cooking a big pot of them each weekend assures that Deborah Murphy and her fellow dietitian husband, Will, have a good source of plant-based protein already prepared for salads and other meals throughout the week. Choosing different varieties of beans to cook keeps them from getting bored. Deborah is […]
Beans and Lamb Are a Great Combination!
Do you love eating lamb but not sure how to prepare it? I recently cleaned out my freezer and came across a leg of lamb that was a few years old. Instead of roasting it like I usually do I decided to cut it into cubes and strips for three different meals. I found two […]